PEITANGYANSHAN

TAIWAN

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00o00´/00o00´ ha, m,

September-August especially for seabird passage (5 and 6.05.2006)

 

Birding Site Guide

We birded here then went on to the pass and back down to the Blue Gate Trails near Wushe. Next day we headed to the coast via Huisin Forest Reserve looking for Varied Tit, then birded the paddies back towards the airport before getting the bus back to Taipan.

 

Birds seen

to Peitangyanshan and Wushe 5th May Peitangyanshan then coast via Huisin Forest Reserve (for Varied Tit) 6th May

  • Crested Serpent-Eagle Spilornis cheela
  • Crested Goshawk Accipiter trivirgatus
  • Black Eagle Ictinaetus malayensis
  • Taiwan Partridge Arborophila crudigularis Endemic NT
  • Chinese Bamboo-Partridge Bambusicola thoracicus
  • Swinhoe's Pheasant Lophura swinhoii Endemic NT
  • Ashy Wood-Pigeon Columba pulchricollis
  • Oriental Turtle-Dove Streptopelia orientalis
  • Large Hawk-Cuckoo Cuculus sparverioides
  • Silver-backed Needletail Hirundapus cochinchinensis
  • White-backed Woodpecker Dendrocopos leucotos
  • Gray-faced Woodpecker Picus canus
  • Black Bulbul Hypsipetes leucocephalus
  • Winter Wren Troglodytes troglodytes
  • Alpine Accentor Prunella collaris
  • Scaly Thrush Zoothera dauma
  • Island Thrush Turdus poliocephalus
  • White-browed Shortwing Brachypteryx montana
  • Rufous-faced Warbler Abroscopus albogularis
  • Ferruginous Flycatcher Muscicapa ferruginea
  • Collared Bush-Robin Tarsiger johnstoniae Endemic
  • White-tailed Robin Cinclidium leucurum
  • Rusty Laughingthrush Garrulax poecilorhynchus
  • White-whiskered Laughingthrush Garrulax morrisonianus Endemic
  • Steere's Liocichla Liocichla steerii Endemic
  • Spot-breasted Scimitar-Babbler Pomatorhinus erythrocnemis
  • Pygmy Wren-Babbler Pnoepyga pusilla
  • Dusky Fulvetta Alcippe brunnea
  • Gray-cheeked Fulvetta Alcippe morrisonia
  • White-eared Sibia Heterophasia auricularis Endemic
  • Taiwan Yuhina Yuhina brunneiceps Endemic
  • Green-backed Tit Parus monticolus
  • Varied Tit Sittiparus varius
  • Eurasian Nuthatch Sitta europaea
  • Japanese White-eye Zosterops japonicus
  • Large-billed Crow Corvus macrorhynchos
  • Vinaceous Rosefinch Carpodacus vinaceus

 

coast to airport & paddies 7th May

  • Great Egret Ardea alba
  • Intermediate Egret Egretta intermedia
  • Little Egret Egretta garzetta
  • Chinese Egret Egretta eulophotes V
  • Chinese Pond-Heron Ardeola bacchus
  • Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis
  • Black-crowned Night-Heron Nycticorax nycticorax
  • Yellow Bittern Ixobrychus sinensis
  • Black-headed Ibis Threskiornis melanocephalus NT
  • Black-faced Spoonbill Platalea minor Endangered
  • Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
  • Spot-billed Duck Anas poecilorhyncha
  • Ruddy-breasted Crake Porzana fusca
  • Common Moorhen Gallinula chloropus
  • Greater Painted-snipe Rostratula benghalensis
  • Oriental Pratincole Glareola maldivarum
  • Pacific Golden-Plover Pluvialis fulva
  • Black-bellied Plover Pluvialis squatarola
  • Little Ringed Plover Charadrius dubius
  • Lesser Sandplover Charadrius mongolus
  • Greater Sandplover Charadrius leschenaultii
  • Common Snipe Gallinago gallinago
  • Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
  • Terek Sandpiper Xenus cinereus
  • Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos
  • Gray-tailed Tattler Tringa brevipes
  • Common Greenshank Tringa nebularia
  • Marsh Sandpiper Tringa stagnatilis
  • Wood Sandpiper Tringa glareola
  • Common Redshank Tringa totanus
  • Ruddy Turnstone Arenaria interpres
  • Great Knot Calidris tenuirostris
  • Red Knot Calidris canutus
  • Sanderling Calidris alba
  • Red-necked Stint Calidris ruficollis
  • Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Calidris acuminata
  • Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea
  • Dunlin Calidris alpina
  • Broad-billed Sandpiper Limicola falcinellus
  • Red-necked Phalarope Phalaropus lobatus
  • Little Tern Sternula albifrons
  • Common Tern Sterna hirundo
  • Great Crested Tern Thalasseus bergii
  • Red Collared-Dove Streptopelia tranquebarica
  • Spotted Dove Streptopelia chinensis
  • Light-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus sinensis
  • Black Drongo Dicrurus macrocercus
  • Eurasian Magpie Pica pica
  • Yellow-billed Grosbeak Eophona migratoria

 

Author: Andy Marshall

 

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